Abstract
As huge budgets and attention are being deployed to construct a global standard for biodiversity metadata, it should not be simply assumed that its data is robust enough to sustain inevitable metadata changes through time, and that at each point in time a single metadata standard is the best way to advance biodiversity research. This research attempts to examine these assumptions by closely tracking the correspondence between data, metadata and theoretical perspectives in important cases conducted by leading scientific figures, in different time and places, and in that sense its finding are likely to be relevant, and perhaps revealing, for other cases as well.
Europe